Exodus 2:15

Clementine Latin Vulgate

Tulit ergo Dominus Deus hominem, et posuit eum in paradiso voluptatis, ut operaretur, et custodiret illum :

Parallel Translations

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
Audivitque Pharao sermonem hunc, et qu�rebat occidere Moysen: qui fugiens de conspectu ejus, moratus est in terra Madian, et sedit juxta puteum.

Nova Vulgata (1979)
Audivitque pharao sermonem hunc et quaerebat occidere Moysen. Qui fugiens de conspectu eius moratus est in terra Madian; venit ergo in terram Madian et sedit iuxta puteum.

Bible Verse Review
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fled: Exodus 4:19, Genesis 28:6, Genesis 28:7, 1 Kings 19:1-3, 1 Kings 19:13, 1 Kings 19:14, Proverbs 22:3, Jeremiah 26:21-23, Matthew 10:23, Acts 7:29, Hebrews 11:27

Midian: Genesis 25:2, Genesis 25:4

sat down: Genesis 24:11, Genesis 29:2, John 4:6

Reciprocal: Genesis 12:15 - princes Genesis 16:6 - fled Genesis 21:25 - reproved Genesis 29:9 - Rachel Genesis 35:1 - when thou Exodus 18:4 - delivered 1 Kings 11:18 - Midian 1 Kings 19:3 - he arose 1 Chronicles 1:32 - Midian

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay Moses,.... Both for his killing the Egyptian, which by the laws of Egypt i was death, whether bond or free; and for his taking part with the Hebrews against the Egyptians, and knowing him to be a wise and valiant man, might fear he would put himself at the head of the Hebrews, and cause a revolt of them; and if there was anything in his dream, or if he had such an one, and had the interpretation of it given by his magicians, that an Hebrew child should be born, by whom Egypt would be destroyed, :-, he might call it to mind, and be affected with it, and fear the time was coming on, and Moses was the person by whom it should be done; and he might be stirred up by his courtiers to take this step, who doubtless envied the growing interest of Moses in his court:

but Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh; not through want of courage, but through prudence, to avoid danger, and preserve his life for future usefulness; and no doubt under a divine impulse, and by the direction of divine Providence, the time for him to be the deliverer of Israel not being yet come:

and dwelt in the land of Midian: a country so called from Midian, one of Abraham's sons by Keturah, Genesis 25:2. Jerom k calls it a city, and says it was on the other side of Arabia, to the south, in the desert of the Saracens, to the east of the Red sea, from whence the country was called Midian; and Philo l says, that Moses went into neighbouring Arabia; and which is confirmed by Artapanus m the Heathen historian, who says, that from Memphis, crossing the river Nile, he went into Arabia; and this country was sometimes called Cush or Ethiopia; hence Moses's wife is called an Ethiopian woman,

Numbers 12:1

and he sat down by a well; weary, thoughtful, and pensive. It may be observed, that it was usual with persons in such like circumstances, being strangers and not knowing well to whom to apply for assistance or direction, to place themselves at a well of water, to which there was frequent resort, both for the use of families and of flocks; see Genesis 24:11. This well is now called, as some say, Eyoun el Kaseb, fourteen hours and a half from Magare Chouaib, or "the grot of Jethro" n; but if this was so far from Jethro's house, his daughters had a long way to go with their flock: but some other travellers o speak of a very neat and pleasant village, called Hattin, where they were shown the grave of Jethro, Moses's father-in-law; and in the neighbourhood of that place is a cistern, now called Omar, and is said to be the watering place where Moses met with the daughters of the priest of Midian. A late learned man p thinks, that Sharma, which is about a day and a half's journey southeast from Mount Sinai, is the place where Jethro lived. The Arabic geographer q says, at the shore of the Red sea lies the city Madian, greater than Tabuc, and in it is a well, out of which Moses watered the flocks of Scioaib, that is, Raguel.

i Diodor. Sicul. Bibliothec. l. 1. p. 70. k De locis Heb. fol. 93. A. B. l De Vita Mosis, l. 1. p. 609. m Apud Euseb. Praepar. Evangel. l. 9. c. 27. p. 433. n See a Journey from Grand Cairo to Mecca, in Ray's Travels, vol. 2. p. 468. o Egmont and Heyman's Travels, vol. 2. p. 29. p See the Origin of Hieroglyphics, at the end of a Journal from Cairo, to Mount Sinai, p. 55. Ed. 2. q Climat. 3. par. 5.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

No Egyptian king would have left; such an offence unpunished. But the position of Moses, as an adopted son of a princess, made it necessary even for a despotic sovereign to take unusual precautions.

The land of Midian - The Midianites occupied an extensive district from the eastern coast of the Red Sea to the borders of Moab.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Exodus 2:15. Pharaoh - sought to slay Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh — How can this be reconciled with Hebrews 11:27: By faith he (Moses) forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king? Very easily. The apostle speaks not of this forsaking of Egypt, but of his and the Israelites' final departure from it, and of the bold and courageous manner in which Moses treated Pharaoh and the Egyptians, disregarding his threatenings and the multitudes of them that pursued after the people whom, in the name and strength of God, he led in the face of their enemies out of Egypt.

Dwelt in the land of Midian — A country generally supposed to have been in Arabia Petraea, on the eastern coast of the Red Sea, not far from Mount Sinai. This place is still called by the Arabs the land of Midian or the land of Jethro. Abul Farajius calls it the land of the Arabs. It is supposed that the Midianites derived their origin from Midian, the fourth son of Abraham by Keturah, thus: - Abraham, Zimran, Jokshan, Medan and Midian, Raguel, Jethro; see Genesis 25:1. But Calmet contends that if Jethro had been of the family of Abraham, either by Jokshan, or Midian, Aaron and Miriam could not have reproached Moses with marrying a Cushite, Zipporah, the daughter of Reuel. He thinks therefore that the Midianites were of the progeny of Cush, the son of Ham; see Genesis 10:6.